Analysis of The Yukoner
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
He burned a hole in frozen muck,
He pierced the icy mould,
And there in six-foot dirt he struck
A sack or so of gold.
He burned holes in the Decalogue,
And then it cam about,
For Fortune's just a lousy rogue,
His "pocket" petered out.
And lo! 'twas but a year all told,
When there in a shadow grim,
In six feet deep of icy mould
They burned a hole for him.
Scheme | ABAB ACXC BDBD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11010101 110101 01011111 011111 111001 011101 11010101 110101 01110111 110011 01111101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 353 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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